C.L.Y.

e-girl:  We’ve been revisiting Dylan of late.  Yesterday I pulled a book off my shelf and spent some time flipping through it last night:  ”Dylan’s Visions of Sin” by Christopher Ricks.  The author categories Dylan’s work into 3 groups based on the 7 Deadly Sins, the 4 Virtues, and The 4 Heavenly Graces.  Quite fascinating.

einsteinsfangirl:

I can’t remember it exactly, but one time Bob Dylan was asked, how he created such amazing songs. His response was along the lines of that he had felt a calling, a pull to write them. He couldn’t stop writing those songs even if he had tried. And that he felt odd even suggesting that the work was…